A 15-year-old girl in Kentucky spent 6 days in juvenile detention after wearing a T-shirt to class that protested her high school's dress code

Isabella Messer was arrested at Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on August 23.

It came after officials said she violated the dress code twice and had an altercation with a school resource officer.

In the first dress code violation incident, Isabella was stopped by her principal for wearing a shirt that exposed her shoulders.

On August 23, Isabella wore a T-Shirt to school with the message, "Do my shoulders turn you on?" printed across the front. The back of the shirt read: "If so, return to the 1920's."

A police report said Isabella kicked the school resource officer on his right shin when he tried to take her phone following her arrest.

A 15-year-old girl in Kentucky was arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center for six days after wearing a T-shirt to class that protested her high school's dress code, the teen's mother told INSIDER.

The arrest on August 23 came after officials say Isabella Messer had an altercation with a school resource officer at Hopkinsville High School following what the school saw as two dress code violations, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.

In the first dress code violation incident, Isabella was reportedly stopped by her principal for wearing a shirt that exposed her shoulders.

Then on August 23, Isabella wore an oversized turquoise T-Shirt to school with the message, "Do my shoulders turn you on?" printed across the front. The back of the shirt read: "If so, return to the 1920's."

Isabella's mother, Theresa Rucks, told INSIDER that she was given two different reasons from two different school officials as to why the T-shirt, which went up to her neck and had sleeves that covered her upper arms, violated the dress code.

The first came from an assistant principal, who told Rucks the shirt was seen as "harassment" after he punished her for her off-the-shoulder shirt.

The second reason came from the principal, who told Rucks it was a violation because it featured "sexual content."

According to a police report seen by the Lexington Herald Leader, Isabella was uncooperative and loud in front of the principal when questioned over the T-shirt, and when a school resource officer tried to arrest her, she pulled away before being handcuffed.

The police report said Isabella kicked the school resource officer on his right shin when he tried to take her phone.

"She's trained in self defense," Rucks told INSIDER, adding that Isabella also knows Taekwondo and that it's "instinct" to lift up her leg when someone comes at her.

Rucks said the school resource officer tried to take the phone from Isabella from behind her back after putting her in handcuffs and bringing her to his office.

"After they already had her in handcuffs, and she was sitting in a chair in the officer's office in the school, they had realized she still had her phone, behind her back with the cuffs on," Rucks said. "That's when they came after her again.

"The first time they left red marks on her neck, her chest, her arms, everything. When they came at her a second time, she put her foot up to kind of stop him from coming after her again, and that's where she got the assault on an officer [charge]."

The teen was then arrested for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and third-degree assault and was taken to the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center, where she stayed for six days until she was released on house arrest on August 28, according to Yahoo Lifestyle.

"I feel like the school has gone overboard," Rucks told the Herald Leader. "She's such a good kid."

'It is not fair to make girls cover up so they don't "distract" the boys at the school'

Isabella has to attend an alternative school within the Christian County School District until her next court date on September 25.

She is also on house arrest and isn't allowed to step outside her home when she's not at school.

Christian County Public Schools released a statement to multiple media outlets about its dress code following the incident involving Isabella.

"All Christian County Public Schools have a dress code for students," it said. "Our students along with their parents and guardians, are aware of dress code rules and the code's enforcement."

Rucks criticized the school district for having a dress code that controls what girls wear to school.

"I honestly believe that it is not fair to make girls cover up so they don't 'distract' the boys at the school," she said. "I don't think that's fair. I think that the boys should be taught to treat women with respect and that they're not a piece of meat.

"In reality, that is what started all of this… . Our young girls, if they like the way they look and are happy with their bodies and themselves, why be forced to cover it up? Why disrupt their education because it might distract a boy?"